Identifier: lambstextileindu01brow (find matches)
Title: Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time;
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, John Howard, 1840-1917 Foster, E. Everton Norris, Edith Mary, b. 1858
Subjects: Textile industry -- United States Industrialists
Publisher: Boston, Mass., James H. Lamb company
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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ton, by trade a weaver, by genius an inventor, who, at the suggestion ofhis employers, Messrs. Crocker & Richmond, Taunton, Mass., and aidedby their American enterprise, produced at their mills a power loom forweaving figured cotton fabrics, for which he obtained a patent in 1839.It was the finst of its kind in the world; and when, at the suggestion of Sam-uel Lawrence, of the IMiddlesex Mills, Lowell, he applied the principle ofhis loom to the weaving of fancy worsted cassimeres, material which hadnever before been produced on any but hand looms, the importance of hiscontribution to the textile art was enhanced beyond estimation. The loomswere manufactured principally at Worcester, Mass. On the lapse of thefir.st patents an extension of them was granted for seven years to the in-ventors son, the late George Crompton. In 1S56 an open-shed loom wasinvented by Lucius J. Knowles, and forty years later the Crompton-KnowlesLoom Company was incorporated. (See Plate 8.) PLATE VIII—Loom
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Furnished throiigli the courtesy ot Crompton & Knowles Loom Works. t/AMES H LAMB CQ. OF THE UNITED STATES 139 Space will not permit us to mention the improvements that have fromtime to time been attempted or perfected by numerous inventors since theinvention of the power loom by Dr. Cartwright; probably the most im-portant that has been effected since the weft-fork (Clinton & Gilroy) andgrid-stop motion, the automatic let-off motions and parallel shuttle motionsis that embodied in the Northrup loom—namely, a device for changing fill-ing in the shuttle, with which was incorporated a warp stop-motion. Thiswas the invention of James H. Northrup, an Englishman who came to theUnited States in 1881. Mr. Northrup, who had previously invented theNorthrup Spooler Guide, first produced a shuttle-changing device and ap-plied it successfully to looms of the Draper Company at Hopedale, Mass.His idea of changing the filling instead of the shuttle began to take shapein 1889, and under the

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